EnglischNo matter what topic or area you are looking at, the amount of data is steadily increasing. This is a great opportunity for designers to help users to understand them better and get a grip on what they can tell you. Therefore it's important to deliver straight interactions and easy to understand informationvisualizations. To show the importance of this topic, Stefan Kraiss and I chose the Marvel Comics Wiki as data source for our Master Thesis. It consists of over 10.000 characters, their relations and uncountable details. Haptic components often help to graps complex informations easier, therefore we created an interactive installation which allowed the user to explore the Marvel Character Universe or to search for specific characters. The visualizations we created showed, for example,the relationship of characters, who knows whom, when did they meet the first time or when did the characters first appear in comics.In addition to the normal touch interactions, we also wanted to increase the techy feel, many comics often have. Therefore we used a technique called "pepper's ghost" to create a holographic projection, using a mirror and a see through plate.

To expand the installation we also created more concepts for a whole exhibition around marvel, giving even more insight on the different parallel universes and specific comic issues.